20 lawsuits against Berisha

TIRANA, Dec 13 – The main opposition Socialist Party leader Edi Rama said that 20 lawsuits against Prime Minister Sali Berisha had been sent to the court for the slanders made by him and other persons.
Rama publicly challenged the Prime Minister to give evidence about the accusations he made against opposition and him personally.
“Today the number of civil lawsuits reached 10, the same as the number of the penal lawsuits. I personally sued against Sali Berisha since the day he held that hate speech in the plenary session and up to now”, Rama said calling on “the person who through intolerable dirtiness pollutes the moratorium of the Parliament and the Council of Ministers” to give evidence in court “at least about one of his slanders”.
The country is involved in a noisy political clash that has gone as bad as calling names against each other. Berisha, for his part, accuses Rama and his close associates as Mafia-linked persons involved in money laundering.
Berisha has always said that his cabinet is released of immunity the moment the prosecutors will start a case.
The lawsuits against Berisha have been sent to the court by Rama and other opposition lawmakers and representatives.
Rama called on the Prosecutor General to start the investigation on all the accusations Berisha has made against himself and to ask him to give the evidence and facts in that respect.
The opposition resumed the protest across the country about the crisis of democracy and the economy of the Albanian families.
Rama said the government was deepening the corruption and was trying to fill the state coffer by terrorizing big businesses and by increasing the living cost of the Albanian families along with the dramatic decrease of their purchasing power.
The opposition accuses the government of increasing the poverty, mentioning the energy price rise, the increased taxes for the small business and the increase of unemployment.
Rama repeated that the opposition was not going to enter the parliament.
“We were and we will be grateful to our international friends for everything, as well as for their serious concern and wise advise for dialog and we would like to reiterate that our boycott is not the cause of the crisis of democracy and the failure of the rule of law, but it is only the consequence of this crisis which is infringing day by day the inviolable rights,” said Rama.